Floods are about rain, floods are also about drainage
by Mohammed Chandio Floods triggered by unusually heavy rain – more than 5 times average – have inundated Sindh Province … Continued
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Hill Torrent Floods Impacting the Southern Punjab Pakistan
Blog by Khurram Mubeen1, edited by Reinier Veldman2 1Assistant Professor (Agronomy), Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture Multan-Pakistan 2Coordinator FBLN … Continued
Urgent!! Salvaging the rabi crop in the spate irrigated areas of Pakistan.
By Frank van Steenbergen The incessant and extraordinary rains in Pakistan’s western mountain catchment have created havoc in one-third of … Continued
What to do when “the sun burns the earth”?
Drought and dry season grazing management strategies of Maasai herders By Esmee Mulder, MetaMeta The key to rangeland sustainability? Collaborate … Continued
Pakistan: Flooded Once Again
Ashfaque Soomro and Frank van Steenbergen Pakistan, a land of multiple geographies and cultural mosaic after a decade (12 … Continued
Establishing Ecological Based Rodent Management in Ethiopia – Part 3: Collective implementation and ways forward
By Tadesse Tilahun, Getachew Engdayehu, Bantamlak Wondmnow, and Luwieke Bosma This is the third in a series of blog posts describing the development and implementation … Continued
Establishing Ecological Based Rodent Management in Ethiopia – Part 2: Developing and testing a biological rodenticide
By Tadesse Tilahun, Getachew Engdayehu, Bantamlak Wondmnow, and Luwieke Bosma This is the second in a series of blog posts describing the development and implementation … Continued
Establishing Ecological Based Rodent Management in Ethiopia – Part 1: The potential of Farmer’s Indigenous Knowledge
By Tadesse Tilahun, Getachew Engdayehu, Bantamlak Wondmnow, and Luwieke Bosma This is the first in a series of blog posts describing the development and implementation … Continued
Getting a head-start: improved seeds and fertilizers in Oromia
by Guta Eshetu Gemechu, Girma Senbeta, Jean Marc Pace Ricci Seed is life. Seed is the starter for agricultural development. There … Continued
Innovative Feed Solutions: Prosopis based livestock feed option for the pastoral/agro-pastoral communities
by Beruk Yemane (EthioFeed) and Frank van Steenbergen (MetaMeta) It is a major scourge, a destabilizer of pastoralist lives: the … Continued
Responding to the Fertilizer Crisis
by Getachew Engdayehu, Frank van Steenbergen and Girma Senbeta The Ethiopian synthetic fertilizer system has been under much pressure with … Continued
Stock water in saline settings
by Frank van Steenbergen In many coastal areas access to fresh water is a huge challenge. Groundwater maybe saline or … Continued